TIFU by forgetting I clogged the toilet

r/

I have no one to blame but myself here. I (38M) started the morning like any other. Big cup of coffee while making my daughters (4, 7) breakfast. Said cup of coffee hit, and wound up clogging the toilet.

Right as I was about to deal with that, my daughters started screaming. They have a goldfish they called Goldy, and it was obviously dying. This was their first pet and we had told them we wanted them to show they can take care of it before they got something bigger, like a cat.

Goldy died, and my daughters were crying terribly. This was their first experience with death, so had a long conversation with them about it. To give them some closure, I suggested we give the goldfish a proper funeral. 30 minute ceremony for the fish, and we were ready to send it to the great beyond from our toilet. My toilet no longer looked like it was clogged and was drained, so in Goldy went and flushed the toilet.

The toilet unfortunately was still very much clogged. Goldy was not sent to the great beyond, instead the bowl was suddenly filled with shit and brown water again. Panicked I tried flushing it again but it made it worse and the bowl almost overflowed. Daughters were screaming, wife failing to comfort them, and me trying to plunge the toilet with a dead fish covered in shit.

Eventually got the toilet plunged and it all flushed, but the damage was done. They go between stone silence and crying about Goldy and asked if that would stop him from going to fish heaven.

TL;DR children’s fish died, gave it a funeral and flushed it into a clogged toilet so said dead fish was covered in shit traumatizing my children.

Comments

  1. Tangostream Avatar

    You shouldn’t be flushing fish down the toilet to begin with.

  2. diefncy Avatar

    What a golden opportunity to plunge that shitty experience with that Cat!

  3. ohlaph Avatar

    This is priceless.

  4. Climboard Avatar

    Maybe a little trauma now but it’ll be one of their favorite stories as an adult.

  5. _SquirrelKiller Avatar

    Best laugh I’ve had all week, wife thinks I’m a 12 year old in a man suit.

  6. Ok_Zookeepergame5141 Avatar

    Oh dear… They will remind you of this when you’re old and grey.

  7. Lady_Penrhyn1 Avatar

    …how badly did you treat that goldfish? They are pretty hardy and can live for 20+ years.